EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
I am an EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist, a credential that reflects advanced training, clinical experience, and demonstrated competency beyond basic EMDR training requirements. I have pursued extensive additional training in advanced EMDR protocols, including training with some of the field’s leading clinicians, trainers, and pioneers, with particular attention to relational or attachment trauma, various phobias, panic disorder, agoraphobia, among others.
What Can EMDR Help With?
Francine Shapiro, the developer of EMDR therapy, distinguished between “Big T” trauma—such as violence, abuse, sexual assault, or serious accidents—and “small t” trauma, including chronic criticism, rejection, emotional neglect, humiliation, instability, or repeatedly feeling unseen or unsupported.
Trauma is not defined only by how severe an experience appears from the outside, but by the lasting impact it has on how you feel, think, relate to others, and respond to stress.
The guiding question in EMDR is: What happened in this person’s life that may be contributing to the way they respond today?
The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, which guides EMDR therapy, proposes that earlier experiences can continue to shape how we interpret present-day situations, relationships, and ourselves. When distressing experiences remain insufficiently processed, they may continue to trigger old emotions, negative beliefs, body sensations, and behavioral patterns.
EMDR helps these memories become more fully processed and integrated, reducing their emotional and physiological impact in the present.
For people seeking trauma therapy or EMDR therapy in Brooklyn or New York, I work with both clearly identifiable traumatic events and the quieter, repeated experiences that continue to shape how you feel about yourself and your relationships today.
Extended 90-Minute Sessions
For clients who want EMDR to be central to the work, I offer 90-minute sessions in addition to standard 50-minute appointments. In a 50-minute session, it's common to begin accessing something meaningful just as time runs out. Ninety-minute sessions allow you to stay with what arises long enough for it to shift, reducing the start-stop rhythm and supporting a more complete arc of work in each session — often making the process both deeper and more efficient. Extended sessions tend to be a good fit if you:
Prefer a more direct, immersive therapeutic experience
Want to move through material more efficiently than weekly 50-minute sessions allow
Are looking for a more contained, time-limited course of treatment rather than long-term open-ended therapy